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blog feedback

  WWW: It’s great that your blog is set up now and you have posted one piece of work on Mise-en-scene. We now need to make sure that blog tasks are finished and we catch up with the missing work from the first couple of weeks.    EBI: Unfinished work. Your blog is missing several pieces of work from the start of the year including most of the homework I have set so far. You have not posted the opening 10 questions or Denotation and Connotation. Both of these were set for homework – original tasks on the blog:   First blog task 10 questions:  https://mediamacguffingcseyear1.blogspot.com/2024/09/welcome-to-gcse-media.html Denotation and Connotation:  https://mediamacguffingcseyear1.blogspot.com/2024/09/denotation-and-connotation.html   I have been calling all families to see if people have a PC/laptop to work on at home but I could only leave a message when I tried to call your parent/carer. Let’s discuss this in class but remember you are welcome in the...

Introduction to Media - index so far

1) First blog task - 10 questions 2) Denotation and Connotation 3) Introduction to Photoshop: fruit bowls 4) Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things 5) Camerawork: shots and angles 6) Camera movement and editing 7) Blog feedback and learner response

Tatler: case study blog tasks

1) Look at the Tatler Media Pack. Go to page 2: how does the editor introduce the magazine? 2) Now go to page 4 of the Media Pack. Focus on the print magazine (NOT tatler.com - the website). List the key demographic details: age, gender %, ABC1 % (social class), HHI (Household Income), % of those living in London and the South East. What do these demographic details suggest about the average Tatler reader? 3) Look at page 6. What do Tatler readers think about fashion? How much do they spend? 4) Go to page 10. What are the special editions of Tatler that run throughout the year? What does this suggest about the Tatler audience? What about the pyschographic audience group that best fits Tatler?

Introduction - Heat Media pack

Magazines: Tatler CSP Introduction - Tatler Media pack 1) Look at the Tatler Media Pack. Go to page 2: how does the editor introduce the magazine? Kate Reardon, the editor, introduces the magazine as a "rifle shot" to the "very richest readers in the country", suggesting that Tatler knows its target audience as the upper / upper-middle class, and aims for it consistently. She implies that the lives of these people influence what the magazine chooses to represent. 2) Now go to page 4 of the Media Pack. Focus on the print magazine (NOT tatler.com - the website). List the key demographic details: age, gender %, ABC1 % (social class), HHI (Household Income), % of those living in London and the South East. What do these demographic details suggest about the average Tatler reader? Demographic details: Circulation: 80,035 Readership: 163,000 Average HHI (Household Income): £261,572 Female: 73% ABC1: 83%, AB: 51% Average Age: 41 London/SE: 70% 3) Look at page 6. What do Tat...

Advertising assessment learner response: blog tasks

Create a new blog post called ' Advertising assessment learner response ' and complete the following tasks: 1) Type up your  WWW/EBI feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).  2) Read the  mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1:  Q2:  Q3:  Q4:  3)  Look specifically at  question 2  - the OMO 12-mark question. Pick out  three  points from the mark scheme that you didn't include in your answer.  4) Now look at  question 3  - on the NHS Represent advert. Use the mark scheme to identify  one  way the advert  subverts  stereotypes of race/ethnicity and  one  way it might  reinforce  stereotypes of race/ethnicity. Try and write points you  didn't  include in your original answer if you can. 5) Finally,  look at  question...

His Dark Materials: Language and Representation blog tasks

1) Write an analysis of the episode - using your notes from the screening in class. Make specific, detailed reference to moments in the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots and movement, editing, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) You can currently watch His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer here. Camerawork, editing and sound:  Mise-en-scene: Narrative and genre:  You can access our notes from the close-textual analysis in a previous class here - you'll need your Greenford Google login to open this. 2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the fantasy TV genre? family conevntions by not swearing and being pg age rating adn fantasy by having witches and fling. 3) Applying Propp's character theory, what character roles do some of the main characters in His Dark Materials fit into?  red dress and strng women in more conttol in power like lyra n miss coulter  4) What enigma and action codes (Barthes) can you find in His...

End of Year 1 exam: Learner Response

 1) Type up any feedback from your teacher in full (you do not need to write the mark/grade if you do not wish to). Total=16 grade=4  www-some good point,mostly early on. ebi-20mark essay. gaps in knowledge/examples lr-see blog  2) Look at the mark scheme document linked above. Question 1.1 asks about mise-en-scene. What do we use to remember mise-en-scene? Give one example answer from the clip too - you'll find example answers in the mark scheme.   3) Question 1.2 asks about narrative features in the extract. Look at the mark scheme to pick out  three  possible answers for this question.  4) Now focus on Question 2 - the 20 mark essay. Use the mark scheme to pick out  one  way Doctor Who reflects 1963 and  one  way His Dark Materials reflects 2020.  5) Reflect on your overall work and exam performance this year. What  three  things do you need to work on or revise in Media for Year 11?